If they tried to ban Joe Camel today conservatives would riot. Elon Musk would live stream his toddler chain smoking cowboy killers. MAHA would say cigarettes are actually healthy if smoked the right way, etc. etc. Anything to hurt people.

The original headline in that NYT interview, blaming just "women" for ruining the workplace, is a much better reflection of its contexts, which include a riff on how men are "warriors" and women are "worriers." It's that infantile.

My guest today is @amandalitman.bsky.social of Run for Something. She was a real champ to come in to tape this, because she's inundated with applications and donor requests after Mamdani's win. What she has to say about 2026 will give you life. youtu.be/7HGEpuXI_Ms?...

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

The newest season if Dig is coming next week from @storiesbyjess.bsky.social!!! She's been working on this a very long time and it's very, very good and infuriating.

Oh well that fixes it

Look what arrived in the mail! ARCs of Mouth, my fifth full-length poetry collection, due out in January from Cornerstone Press. Preorder link coming soon —

This court case is golden

Literally what is wrong with this publication. Painful failure of Betteridge’s Law aside, this stupid trolling should be beneath journalists who hold themselves to be the elite of our profession. The same pages will be handwringing about polarization next, too. Clickbait garbage. Do better.

SDF is typical weekday morning (packed) but miracle of miracles, the CLEAR lane is open if that’s your thing. (Its bizarre hours baffle me)

Feels weird to be headed to SDF this morning. I hear things seemed normal yesterday but I can’t imagine they felt that way to the folks who work there. (Who are genuinely nice, especially given the stress of those jobs.)

BRB gotta schedule a cathartic cry by way of watching "Little Amélie" now that I've read @colemanjspilde.bsky.social's take www.salon.com/2025/11/05/l...

BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Transportation announces it will reduce scheduled airspace capacity by 10% starting Friday morning if the government shutdown has not ended, citing "growing pressure" in the NAS as controllers and other personnel continue to go unpaid. Developing story.

This is DEPRAVED

A lot of people in hot dog costumes here all trying to find the guy who did this www.salon.com/2025/11/05/r...

I hope you're happy: Alan Dershowitz has been forced to issue a statement on the fake Post headline

A lot of pop culture popular with liberals during the Obama administration has been swept into the same bucket marked “neoliberal,” with little attention paid to their actual thematic ideas, aesthetic presentation, or character dynamics. (Deleted an earlier version of this for boring reasons.)

Following a deadly plane crash in Louisville, Gov. Andy Beshear has declared Kentucky is in a state of emergency. The declaration “allows us to move resources more quickly," he said. From @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social: kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/05/b...

There are two lessons from last noght, a local and a national. Nationwide, we see a mobilization of the Dem base and a rebuke of Trump’s vision. In New York—really a Dem-on-Dem race!—we see something more specific: the emergence of a new vision that contradicts the preferences of Dem leadership.

dear playwright, why is your play six hours?

you have to what now

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Just in case you were expecting something wild tonight, this viral screenshot was fake.

New York voters are already skeptical that Democrats have the will to learn lessons from Mamdani's success. In response to the win, Bernie Sanders said that it was time to face a hard truth: "Chuck Schumer and the Democratic establishment are losing relevance."

It’s safe to say that Cuomo did not wrap up this bizarre and embarrassing coda to his political career with grace. www.salon.com/2025/11/04/m...

It's not only Cuomo who got trounced here, it is Third Way and Ezra Klein, Bari Weiss, No Labels, David Brooks and Bret Stephens, the Lincoln Project, the whole great hulking mass of horrible politics knowers

The news out of Louisville is tough tonight as the death toll has now reached at least 7, with that number expected to rise. First responders are onsite and working hard to extinguish the fire and continue the investigation. 1/3

“It’s safe to say that Cuomo did not wrap up this bizarre and embarrassing coda to his political career with grace.” @rpaynereport.bsky.social reports for @salon.com www.salon.com/2025/11/04/m...

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

Today is an absolute rebuke of anti-transgender politics, and a real sign that the anti-trans panic is fading. From VA Gov to Loudoun County to New Jersey to New York City and Pennsylvania, anti-trans Republicans are falling left and right.

Amazing what can be accomplished with the power of an aloof wife

Mira Nair, in addition to being a brilliant filmmaker, is now officially the mom of the MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY!

His name ends in a vowel—maybe Mamdani's Italian, T.

everybody gets twenty-four hours to lib out with impunity, tonight is the cringe purge

SDF public safety officer Jonathan Biven just said the death count of UPS crash is now 4, but he also said the plane "went down three miles south of the airfield," which is simply false. Unclear if it ever left the ground, and 3 miles is south of the Gene Snyder... not remotely close.

Beshear says at least three killed in Louisville plane crash kentuckylantern.com/briefs/beshe... @liamniemeyer.bsky.social

Press conference with airport officials and Louisville Mayor Greenberg in 10.

UPS says 3 crewmembers on board the cargo flight

this image of the smoke showing up on radar is crazy, that’s half the city

NEW: Shelter in place issued in Louisville following reports of UPS plane crash

Video shows a UPS plane catching fire and exploding as it took off from Louisville's airport. Watch it here.

"Lamenting the loneliness of people who take pride in alienating others requires recasting antisocial behavior as political bravery."

"There is an exquisite irony that the same men who have spent the last decade signal-boosting a circle jerk of masculinist propaganda are now being told that they are insufficiently high-value." —  @andizeisler.bsky.social for @salon.com www.salon.com/2025/11/04/s...

As a cradle baseball fan I loved talking with the great sportswriter @ballgirl.bsky.social about her new book for @salon.com. Make her commissioner @mlb.com! www.salon.com/2025/11/03/j...

I would also prefer to fall back and stay that way, I find springing forward much harder and much less necessary as we eventually end up with a lot more daylight in spring and summer anyway

✔️snow ✔️about family and redemption ✔️a mysterious bearded man arrives on a sledge Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is a Christmas Movie

A very specific and heartfelt good morning to Natalie Maines

Aloof Wife Guy

People that addicted to attention will never leave New York, the idea is comical, like a cat threatening to swear off tuna and laser pointers

The brunch talker over the weekend was JD, Usha, and Erika. People care about a lot of things but enjoy — in a time of precious little in the national conversation to enjoy — petty schadenfreude and mess. I mean, I would pay to see their law school cohort's splinter group chat right now.